സ്കൂള്‍ ജീവിതം :

എന്റെ സ്കൂള്‍ കൊല്ലം ഇന്ഫന്റ്റ് ജീസുസ് ഒരു ബോയ്സ് ഒണ്‍ലി ആയിരുന്നു ബട്ട് അതില്‍ എനിക്ക് ഒരിക്കലും വിഷമം ഉണ്ടായിടില. ക്ലാസ്സില്‍ ഞങ്ങള്‍ 40 പേര്‍ . നല്ല കുട്ടികളായി തല്ല് കൂടി ഞങ്ങള്‍ കഴിഞ്ഞു കൂടി. ഹൈ സ്കൂളില്‍ പഠിക്കാന്‍ കേറിയപ്പോ മുതല്‍ അമ്മക്ക് എന്റെ കാര്യത്തില്‍ ആകെ ശങ്ക ആയിരുന്നു. പഠിക്കാന്‍ എന്റെ സ്തിതി വീട് अस കേറുന്ന അട്ടയെ പോലെ ആയിരുന്നു. പരിക്ഷക് പാസ് ആകാനും അകത്തിരികനും സദ്യതകള്‍ ഉണ്ദൈരുനു.എനെ ഇപോ പടിപിച്ചു കളക്ടര്‍ ആകും എന്ന രീതിയില്‍ ഇടകിടക് എന്നെ പടിപിക്കാന്‍ ചേച്ചി വരും . അവള്‍ അപോ SN കോളേജില്‍ pre-degree ku പഠിക്കുന്ന കാലം.എനിക്ക് പടികുനതിനെ കാളും ക്രിക്കറ്റ് ആയിരുന്നു കമ്പം . അങ്ങനെ ഇരികുമ്പോള്‍ ആണ് വിമല ടീച്ചറിന്റെ അടുത്ത് ട്യൂഷന് ചേരുന്നത്. .ആഴ്ചയില്‍ 3 ദിവസം സ്കൂള് കഴിഞ്ഞു അവിടെ പോകണം. അവിടെ ഞങ്ങളുടെ ബാച്ചില്‍ ഞങ്ങള്‍ 20 ആണ്‍ കുട്ടികളും അടുത്ത സ്കൂളിലെ അത്രെയും തന്നെ പെണ്‍ കുട്ടികളും ആയിരുന്നു. അതുവരെ എനിക്ക് വലിയ പിടി ഇലാത്ത കരയിലെ ജീവികള്‍ ആയിരുന്നു അത്. എന്നാലും ട്യൂഷന് പോകാന്‍ ഒരു ആകര്ഷണം അവര്‍ ആയിരുന്നു.

ആദ്യമായ്‌ തോന്നുന്ന അനുരാഗം എന്തെന്നു പറഞ്ഞു അറിയിക്കാന് പറ്റാത്തതാണ് . പക്ഷെ 9 അം ക്ലാസ്സ്‌ഇല് വെച്ചു അത് 

Movie Review - Puthiya Mugam

Welcome to a pure commercial world in malayalam cinema. This movie can be discribed so in one line. For a long time there has been no movie in malayalam of such gender. The movie completly revolves around the hero who pulls out the whole movie single handedly from the ditch. This movie will be a mark as it announces the arrival of a new super star.

It all starts from with calm and ends with a calamity. The first half of the movie is so engaging that it leaves the director with nothing much to do in the second. I might have raised a few eye brows when i called this is the arrival of a super star. But if you would watch the movie one can under stand that there is no other hero in malayalam who would be able to do justice to this action movie than Pritvi. All other characters including the villians which includes shami tilakan, vijayaragavan and sai kumar fails to impress by a long time. The character done by Bala does not seem strong enough but the guy who played his friend 'venki' has done total justice to his role.

The action sequence through out the second half gets you bored and with a long climax fight with all slow shots we will be getting out of the cinema with a feeling that we did not watch a good movie. But the you rem the marvolous first half then you feel this was a worth watch.
Deepak Dev has made a strong come back and the songs which were out as promos did it's part to pull the audience.

I would go with 3/5. Watch it if you are free with just expectations then you will not be dissapointed.

Movie Review- Bramaram

It is one of those movies which you can't say is bad, but if you ask me whether I enoyed it, then I will have to confess that I didn't . Blessy to his usual, protraits a life situation that can happen to anyone. The movie kicks off with the coimbatore blasts and a stranger in the city played by the hero.The subtle shifts between suspense, tension and hero's reactions cooked well brings out a seat edger through the first half. About our hero, little is told about him, which left a few unanswered questions in the minds of the audience

Once the story unfolds at the begining of the second half the auidence gets a feeling that the suspense created by the director is not convincing to have a story like this. This stage of the movie left me quite unsatisfied, but that was compensated to some extend by the brilliant camera work which was top notch. The one in which Lalettan drives the truck has been excellently shot. Many frames through the movie looked like they were taken from an art gallery.
This movie is going to sweep many awards for acting, direction and camera, but still will fail to entertain the masses.
Rating . 2.5/5

The Top Five Indian Batsemen In last !0 Years.

In mid 90's to be exact the wills world cup marked a new cricket wave in India. During those times our test line up were hardly capable enough to stand 70 overs against a decent pace attach overseas. The strategie was simple. Have a couple of guys to open who could hardly survive 10 overs , get through the new ball and set the stage for sachin. The england tour in 96' has an important mark in indian cricket history.In mordern days you could hardly see two legends debuting together.

The inings that first comes to me speaking about the 90's are the ones played by sachin and azhar in SA. We were down on 58-5 when they came together and took the bowling apart. We hardly see some one batting with sachin getting applause and that was azhar for me. A guy from hyderbad who was so lazy but elegant . His cover drives, leg fliks, pulls all are just what than classic and deserves to be in top five.

This lad from delhi is some one who nobody expected to even play the gameshighest format.At the first class level he was an all rounder who bats in the middle order. His carrier changed with the sharpness of ganguly's captancy during an ODI during the SL tour.The whole tournament was a low scoring affair with scores around 225 being wining. In the do - die match, NZ went on to score 264 which looked like nearly an impossible target for the indian batting line up with sachin not playing. when i was back from school around 4 clock in the evening i was shocked to see the indian score board which said 160/1 in 22 overs. Remember those are the days when teams score 60/1 in 15 overs as a norm. Then i recoganized this lad who opened for us along with ganguly and scored a century in about 67 balls and he is no one else than Virendar shewag!!. From there he was taken to SA where he made a century as middle order bat in his debut. Now time tells his class. It's hard to pick his best knock, might be the match saving 150 in adelaide or 83 against eng in chennai. The most important thing about this lad is that when ever he scores a century he scores it big. He could be the most entertaing test opener ever too.

when you speak about two legends debuting on the same test match we usually forget this guy who made his debut two tests after. None noticed this guy growing in the team.When rahul cemented the one down position and saurav the sixth spot this guy was running around trying to fit in the team. He opened played at no seven,and even carried water.For more than four years no body cared for this guy until he walked in to open at Sydney. But the moment came which shook the whole cricketing fretanity when this guy took on the OZ attack along with rahul at kolkata. That legendry 281 can be rated as one of the best test inings all time. That’s the moment when every one realized that he was a sleeping star. Then on he played a lot of great inings including the 148 with rahul in adeliade (03'), the 70 in perth (08') to name a few. His major contribution was'nt limited to these big inings in test matches even his small 30's and 50's at important situaitons has helped us.
As gilichrist famously quoted "VVS seems to be in a state of meditaion when he is batting". he is one the most elegent stroke makers india has ever produced." same ball at same spot back to back you ball at him he will show you how to hit one through leg side another through offside " sunil gavasker ones famously quoted.that's the class of this man.

"commit all your crimes when sachin is batting because even the lord is watching". that can easily some up the man we are talking about. May be the only batsmen ever in the history of cricket who would have got a standing ovasion where ever he comes out to bat regardless of wether it's mumbai,lords,jo'burg or sydney.An icon himself is almost treated as GOD by millions. "sachin is out now y are you wasting time watching the match get back to your studies" my parents not only them i think the whole of india used to think in these notes during the 90's. He is not some one i can define . His 136 against PAK in chennai made me cry the whole night that was the pain that inings gave to all the indians. Though he can be the best still what makes him the just second to best is defined in that inings or may be the 150 he scored in sydney(08') (i am not going about his legendry inings as even kids know about them).An ideal man outside the field too has never been seen angry until when ponting said the tri series best of three finals will be over in just two matches and he replied saying he will make sure that ponting words come true and classicly did it. An inspiration for many he will be the best indian cricketer ever.

This guy a true gentleman, came into the pitch while his debuting partner was scoring a hundred. He made a solid 95 with tailenders which was over shadowed by saurav's 131. That's the story of a man who lived in shadows for many years. When he scored a blistering 145 against SL in 99' WC saurav scored a 183. When he had the world record partnership with sachin of 331,sachin out scored him by leaps. When he scored a majestic 180 and batted the whole day with laxman,laxman was building an innings of life time.The wall as rightly being addressed had this story till 02'. The innings that made his mark in the international arena was against SA in joburg when he went on to score his maiden century of 148 in 96’. Then he followed up with a lot of 50's but nothing turning on to big ones. The one which cemented his place in the team was in NZ when he scored a valuable 190 and a 150 stand on the eighth wicket with srinath which saved the match for india. But the gem in him stood up in adelaide when he went on to score a match wining 233 & 72* marking OZ defeat in there home soil which was equalent to a miracle. The wall came out of the shadows and got the man of the match in eng 02' for his 148 on the opening day of the test on a seaming wicket which laid the platform for sachin's 193 and saurav's 115 leading india to a test win in eng after years.The man was the architect for india's major foriegn soil wins including WI(02',06') eng(02',06') OZ (03') PAK (04') and many others. I know am in for many brick bats for placing him above sachin still my heart feels he is the one who thought us how to win abroad.

5. Mohamad Azharuddin
4. Virendar Shewag
3. VVS Laxman
2. Sachin Tendulkar
1. Rahul Dravid

The Do or Die for 2 nd rank..

it was an unbelivable test match in which we were bundled out by the visitors to an innings defeat.. thinking of this defeat it self is unbelivable for me..the biggest in threw i have seen us loosing at our own back yard..but now this is not the time for blame games..normally on a big defeat there will be some points to jolt down pin pointing some opposing player..but here nothing can be said as everything happened so soon..i admit my mistake for seeing SA side as a weak attack..still i don't think they deserve much respect..i feel it was the indians mistakes rather than SA bowlers talent..my insecurities about our next generation is wide open now..rahul is looking as if he is no longer the free flowing horse but a bull pulling the cart..may be of his talent he is able to pull out some master strokes as the one in perth on critical points of a series still i feel he is in his twilight..sourav too is playing as if he is to prove a point rather than for the team but he was our best mate last match..lax is the only in fab 5 looking in good touch..kumble too is looking bored of too much cricket now days..irfan is a type of player i will find hard to drop..his bowling had nothing to be impressed but his skills with willow should not go un seen..looking to the next match i feel india should go with 2 pacers and 2 spinners..if kumble is unfit i feel piyush should be given the cap..he will be a toss of surprise for them as for the aussies in the finals..

SA IN INDIA

what you expect from this SA side..i don't expect them to win here anyways..with luck they may save a test..the minimum result would be 2-0 or 3-0..am not that much exited to watch this series expect fo rthe points IND can gain from this series to go near Aussies..now i feel little secure about cricket but future of our test team is not safe..take out dravid & kumble i think others are not match winners( of course sachin,laxman is there but still the can't stand to class of y rahul & anil)..another thing i wonder is credibility of dhoni in test cricket..if you ponder over his test records (mainly overseas) they very poor both in front and behind the wicket..ya he has improved a lot in keeping still i feel kartick should be considered as a better option looking long term..in IND winning is obviously what matters still there is a BIG hole devoloping in case of Yuvraj a match winner of his own class in ODI's i feel is in danger of being sealed same as Ajay jadeja..though am a keralite i wonder how come Sreesanth is still retaing his place in the squad,he is turning out to be another Agarkar (you put him out of the team for a couple of matches then he will bowl decntly on the come back match and will be a waste for the next then again will sit out)..i think Chawla should be given a long run with the team before he was hit by the injury he was our leading spinner above bajji..talking about bajji i feel his credibility in test cricket is a BIG ? it's a long time now i think he has won us any test match..another problem we are going to face is replacement for the fab 5..i dono how will turn into..
rahul -------
sachin yuvraj
saurav -------
laxman -------
kumble -------
evrything looks void..still now we have not identified any one may be utappa,gambir ,rohit and some others will rise there standards..